Monday

President Obama rejected the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline last January, but its corporate owner -- TransCanada -- has submitted a new and revised proposal to the State Department for the northern stretch of this disaster-in-the-making.

President Obama has promised repeatedly that the pipeline would not get approved without a full and independent review.

It’s time to make sure that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers on that promise!

The State Department is already signaling that it wants to rely in large part on the
terribly flawed review it conducted last year --which is exactly what Big Oil wants!

That botched review whitewashed the Keystone XL, claiming it would have “no significant impact” on the surrounding environment -- a corporate-sponsored conclusion that flies in the face of the awful reality.

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ENGLISH FOLK POEM, 1764

ENGLISH FOLK POEM, 1764

They hang the man and flog the womanThat steal the goose from off the common,But let the greater villain looseThat steals the common from the goose.The law demands that we atoneWhen we take things we do not ownBut leaves the lords and ladies fineWho take things that are yours and mine.

The poor and wretched don't escapeIf they conspire the law to break;This must be so but they endureThose who conspire to make the law.

The law locks up the man and womanWho steals the goose from off the common;And geese will still a common lackTill they go and steal it back.